So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
An exquisite new short story from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Small Things Like These and Foster. 'A genuine once-in-a-generation writer.' - The Times 'Every word is the right word in the right place, and the effect is resonant and deeply moving.' - Hilary Mantel 'Claire Keegan makes her ...Show more
The Queen of Dirt Island by Donal Ryan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
From the multi-award-winning author of the number one bestseller, STRANGE FLOWERS, a searing, jubilant story about four generations of women and fierce love. 'Ryan's work has set a benchmark to which other writers will aspire' JOHN BOYNE' I think you have to truly love people to write like this' RACHEL ...Show more
Edenglassie: An extraordinary story of early Brisbane by Melissa Lucashenko
$32.99 AUD
Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS
Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful Nita in Edenglassie, their saltwater people still outnumber the British. As colonial unrest peaks, Mulanyin dreams of taking his bride home to Yugambeh Country, but his plans for independence collide with ...Show more
Maktub by Paulo Coelho
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
An essential companion to the inspirational classic The Alchemist, filled with timeless stories of reflection and rediscovery. From one of the greatest writers of our age comes a collection of stories and parables unlocking the mysteries of the human condition. Gathered from Paulo Coelho's daily column ...Show more
Held by Anne Michaels
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'Through luminous moments of chance, change, and even grace, Michaels shows us our humanity - its depths and shadows' MARGARET ATWOOD The triumphant new novel from the author of the Orange Prize-winning Fugitive Pieces- a soaring and luminous story of chance and change 1917. On a battlefield near the ...Show more
My Brilliant Sister by Amy Brown
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
While Stella Miles Franklin took on the world, her beloved sister Linda led a short, domestic life as a wife, mother and sister. In a remarkable, genre-bending debut novel Amy Brown thrillingly reimagines those two lives – and her own – to explore and explode the contradictions embedded in brilliant ca ...Show more
The Cryptic Clue: A Tea Ladies Mystery by Amanda Hampson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Welcome back to Zig Zag Lane in the heart of Sydney's rag-trade district, where our intrepid tea ladies, Hazel, Betty and Irene, have their work cut out. Solving a murder, kidnapping and arson case, and outwitting an arch criminal, earned them the respect of a local police officer. Now he needs their a ...Show more
Mania by Lionel Shriver
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Set in a parallel yet all too familiar near past, a brilliant subversive novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author about a lifelong friendship threatened by the Culture Wars The year is 2011, but not the 2011 we know. The Mental Parity movement has taken hold and Americans now embrace the sacred, ...Show more
Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-reum
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
There was only one thing on her mind.'I must start a bookshop.' Yeongju did everything she was supposed to, go to university, marry a decent man, get a respectable job. Then it all fell apart. Burned out, Yeongju abandons her old life, quits her high-flying career, and follows her dream. She opens a bo ...Show more
So Close to Home by Mick Cummins
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
A tense, moving novel about a young man struggling with addiction and trauma from the winner of the 2023 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript. For fans of Craig Silvey's Honeybee and Mark Brandi's Wimmera Eighteen-year-old Aaron is charismatic, resourceful and addicted to he ...Show more
Breakdown by Cathy Sweeney
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
From one of Ireland's most provocative and admired writers comes a story of rage and reckoning, joy and transformation, and one woman's decision to leave everything behind. One winter morning, in contemporary Dublin, a middle-class woman wakes up next to her husband in her suburban home, and without co ...Show more
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lar ...Show more